Definitions For Broadside

noun

  • The simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship
  • The whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
  • All of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
  • A speech of violent denunciation
  • An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
  • A very strong and harsh spoken or written attack
  • An attack by a ship in which all the guns on one side of the ship are fired together

verb

  • Collide with the broad side of
  • With the side facing forward
  • Directly from the side
  • To hit (a vehicle) very hard from the side

adjective

  • Toward a full side

adverb

  • With a side facing an object

Is Broadside a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
14

The word Broadside is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Broadside in a Sentence

  • The car was hit broadside.
  • One car hit the other broadside and crushed the passenger door
  • His car was broadsided by a truck as he was driving through the intersection.

Synonyms for Broadside

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